Latin Map Facts

Question 0

Ithaca

Answer 0

home of Odysseus and Penelope and Telemachus in the Odyssey by Homer.

Question 1

crete

Answer 1

Zeus was stolen away by Cronos’s wife. Wife gave Cronos a rock in a blanket to eat instead. Zeus was raised on Crete

Question 2

Athens

Answer 2

famous philosophers lived there, Plato and Aristotle taught there. Aristotle was Alexander the Great’s teacher. Socrates was there.

Question 3

Sparta

Answer 3

know for their military, young boys and girls were taken at a very early age to train for military.

Question 4

Lesbos

Answer 4

Sappho- famous woman who wrote poetry in 600BC. second most famous poet at the time under Homer.

Question 5

Troy

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home of Aeneas and where trojan war was started (greeks vs romans)

Question 6

Rome

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called caput mundi (capital of the world), founded by romulus and remus in 753 BC

Question 7

Scylla and Charybdis

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Scylla: six headed monster
Charybdis: whirlpool
Odysseus chose Scylla to lose six men instead of all

Question 8

Olympus

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Mt Olympus home of the gods

Question 9

Olympia

Answer 9

olympic games were held here

Question 10

Alexandria

Answer 10

Alexander the Great build the famous library and light house here. It was famous for glass making